Brother Zhu Youxiao

"If that's the case..."

Many nobles in the Andreevsky Hall breathed a sigh of relief after hearing Ilya's words.

They could only get information from Ilya, and Ilya could only get information from Golovin.

Now Golovin said that he withstood the Ming army's offensive in Mangazeya, so the situation should have been contained. As for whether he can counterattack?That's two words.

"Even if you can't counterattack, you just need to defend the Yenisei River. West Siberia is an important fur production area for the empire. If it is lost, the empire will lose millions of rubles in revenue."

A nobleman on the high table issued an ultimatum to Ilya, and Ilya nodded to show that he understood. At the same time, he also said:

"Although Golovin blocked the attack of the Ming army, now he only has 800 troops and more than [-] escaped expeditions."

"I suggest that the empire transfer [-] shooting troops and [-] Cossack cavalry from the Crimean defense line in the south to support it, and it is best to transfer another [-] noble cavalry."

Ilya's suggestion is very pragmatic. Tsarist Russia's elite troops are not too many. It is not bad to transfer 2000 out of [-] elite troops. As for the Cossack cavalry, they are dispensable.

However, after the matter of mobilizing 4000 people to support Siberia was raised, the nobles still whispered.

Unlike Ming Dynasty, which had to face the vast and uninhabited Central Siberia, Tsarist Russia actually had a large population in West Siberia.

After the destruction of the Nogai Khanate and the Siberia Khanate, nearly 20 people of these two Khanates were ruled by Tsarist Russia. Although most of them lived in the southern Siberian steppe, they could still send supplies to the Tsarist Russian army in the north through the Ob River.

However, these places are not stable, because Mongolian tribes such as the Kazakh Khanate Sanyuzi and Junggar in the south will harass them from time to time.

Therefore, Tsarist Russia's local garrison basically remained at around [-] regular troops and [-] expedition teams.

However, as the Ming army "advanced westward", more than 500 troops were gathered in Central Siberia, and the life and death of the expedition team was unknown. Golovin mobilized another [-] regular troops to go north, so the military strength in the south was somewhat weak.

At this time, if Junggar goes north, Tsarist Russia will suffer a lot of losses.

Therefore, it is necessary to deploy troops, but we have to consider whether the local area can support another 4000 people while supporting the existing [-] expedition teams and troops.

"As long as the cavalry is needed in the south, two thousand Cossack cavalry can prevent the Tatars from going north."

"That's right. In addition, there is no need to send the Noble Cavalry Legion to the north. The Shooting Legion can be increased to 500 people and let them carry twenty six-pound guns to support Golovin."

"It should be fine."

Sending 500 people, in the eyes of many nobles, this has already challenged the national strength of Tsarist Russia.

Since Golovin was able to block the invasion of the Ming army with [-] regular troops, then sending an additional [-] shooting regiments, plus [-] six-pound guns, would obviously be able to stalemate or launch a counterattack with the Ming army.

"Just follow Baron Dolgorukov's suggestion, send [-] shooting regiments and [-] six-pound guns to support Golovin, and then send [-] Cossack cavalry to Tomsk and Tara in the south, Three bastions of Tyumen."

A high-ranking nobleman spoke to Ilya, and Ilya nodded in agreement.

Immediately afterwards, he stopped speaking, but turned around and walked out of the Andreevsky Hall, and asked his guards to take the troop dispatch letter he wrote to the regiment station in the southern Crimea region to dispatch troops.

It was already July 22 when the Crimean Army received the letter and began to deploy troops, and it was already the third day of August when Golovin in Mangazea received the reinforcement letter from the rear.

"What are you kidding???"

In Mangazeya's military and political chief's hall, when Golovin saw that only 500 reinforcements had been sent to the rear, and only [-] shooting regiments had been sent to Mangazeya in the north, his cold sweat broke out. It popped out at once.

He didn't expect the nobles in the rear to trust him so much, and really felt that he blocked the Ming army's offensive.

"The Ming army's offensive..."

The 36-year-old Golovin wanted to cry but had no tears. He looked at the dim military and political chief hall and wanted to cry a lot.

He just made nonsense that he blocked the Ming army's offensive just to prevent the nobles in the rear from feeling incompetent, but he didn't expect the nobles in the rear to actually believe him.

If he does not change, the situation here will reveal his lies when the troops of the Shooting Legion arrive in Mangazea.

The Ming army did not cross the Yenisei River at all. They stopped after taking down Central Siberia. Golovin was grateful for this for a long time.

It is also because the Ming army did not fight the Yenisei River, so there are no traces of battles around Mangazeya. As long as an army comes to inspect, the situation here will be completely exposed.

In order to deal with the shooting army, Golovin had to make some changes to Mangazea before they arrived in Mangazea.

"guard!"

Thinking of the urgent time, Golovin yelled at the door, and the next second a guard pushed open the door of the Military and Political Chief Hall.

He looked at Golovin suspiciously, but what Golovin said in the next second made him dumbfounded.

"We took out all the gunpowder, blasted some gaps in the city wall, and then repaired them. By the way, we set fire to a forest in the east outside the city, creating traces of people camping."

"Finally, tell the people below that if you don't want to cross the Yenisei River to fight the Ming army on the other side, then tell everyone that we have been fighting the Ming army for two months, and they only withdrew today because of supply problems Yenisei River."

"Obey, Mr. Governor!" Hearing Golovin's words, the guard quickly returned a military salute.

Although he was a little surprised to blow up his own city wall, the four hundred Tsarist Russian soldiers in Mangazeya actually knew the horror of the Ming army on the other side.

They just came to serve as soldiers to make money, not to really go to the battlefield to make contributions.

It is better to blow up the city wall and then repair it than to fight the Ming army head-on.

"That's right! Some Tatar prisoners were executed and hanged on wooden stakes at the gate of the city. They were said to be captured Ming soldiers."

Golovin did not forget this act of showing his bravery, and the guard immediately responded when he heard the words, and then turned around to deal with these matters.

"Boom—"

An hour later, there was a violent explosion in Mangazeya.

Such a change was learned by the Tangqi of the Ming army on the east bank of the Yenisei River, and they also quickly reported the situation here to the city of Tuluhanks.

After the general of the northern army who had just changed defenses learned of the change, he urgently ordered someone to send the news to Yenisesk city in the south.

Unlike Tulu Hanks, the city of Yeniseysk is located on the west bank of the Yenisei River, and it is also Zhu Youjian's plan to send troops to take down the bridgehead of the Ming army in West Siberia in the future.

Therefore, this was also the only West Siberia bastion captured by the Ming army.

As a bridgehead in the future, after switching defenses with Wu Sangui, Cao Wenzhao arrived here with two battalions of soldiers and horses.

"Let's ignore the explosion, what happened to those bastions?"

Because it is summer and Yenisessk Fort is too small, Cao Wenzhao is currently leading [-] troops to expand the city.

He was wearing a military uniform, holding an ax in one hand, and a message from the north in the other. There was a wooden plaque in front of him, with a row of large characters "Lingbei General Military Mansion" written on it.

Apparently, he was cutting a plaque for his General Military Mansion Yamen, and in front of him, after crossing the sending letter pond and riding behind him, what appeared before his eyes was a scene full of excitement.

More than 4000 northern army cavalry dismounted to work as carpenters and masons. Taking advantage of the hot weather, they kept cutting wood, pieced it together into a wooden wall, and poured some cement and sand and gravel.

If the time is fast, a concrete wall eight feet high and six feet thick will appear here in half a month.

Such a concrete wall is [-] steps long, and it is closely connected to the city wall of Yenisesk City, which has been renamed Lingbei City.

The cement was provided by Modong Province, and a boatload of cement was transported to Hanbei City via Heilongjiang River, then to Lake Baikal by land, and then transported here by water from Lake Baikal.

In three months, Modong Province barely delivered [-] tons of cement to this place. Although it was relatively small, it was enough for the Ming army to expand Lingbei City.

After the concrete wall is enclosed, at least they can spend a relatively warm winter here.

However, it is more or less unrealistic to station 9000 people in this Lingbei area for a long time, so Cao Wenzhao plans to transfer back a battalion of soldiers and horses after taking down various bastions, leaving only Two battalions of six thousand soldiers and horses were stationed in Lingbei.

Now he asked about the encirclement situation of the bastions everywhere, also to prepare for the transfer of soldiers and horses to the south.

Regarding this, a general standing beside him bowed and said, "Reporting to the general army, they have already fallen. More than 600 people tried to go out of the city to fight, but they were killed by our army. There are more than 900 Raksha ghosts who were captured." .”

"Let's kill them all." Cao Wenzhao replied absent-mindedly, obviously he didn't intend to let the Raksha ghost who had seen the power of the rifle survive.

Regarding his words, the general also responded with a smile. After all, the dead Rakshasa people are counted as beheading, and the reward offered by the Dudu Mansion is ten taels of silver.

The more than 900 people are more than 9000 taels of silver. The Northern Army and the Eastern Army sent troops this time have a total of 1 people. Counting the more than 600 people who were killed before, each brother can get one tael. The extra is basically generals our.

The dispatch of troops this time is not considered dangerous, because the Raksha people's combat power is too weak, and their strength is only on the way.

Traveling for a month and getting a tael of silver, this kind of good thing they really hope to do more times.

"Don't worry about things in the north. Anyway, as long as the Raksha people don't take the initiative to attack, we will ignore them for the time being."

"The imperial court has dispatched more than 2 people to go north to Lingbei, and I have to allocate them. You hang up my plaque and don't break it."

Cao Wenzhao stood up, and the general responded with a smile. Obviously, they didn't pay attention to Golovin and others.

If it weren't for logistics, I'm afraid they would have already swallowed the Ural Mountains.

Cao Wenzhao walked towards his General Military Mansion, and the capital, nearly four thousand miles away, was also very lively.

After entering August, various railways have advanced hundreds of miles one after another, so more abundant products began to appear in the capital through the railways.

In August, Beijing can not only eat fresh lychees and peaches, but also a lot of fruits and vegetables.

For the common people, the most intuitive feeling is that the prices have become cheaper, but for the officials, they feel the undercurrent of the peaceful scene.

On August [-]th, Zhu Youjian, who had rested for five months longer than agreed, returned to the capital.

Because it was the Mid-Autumn Festival, the streets were filled with many shops selling moon cakes. Zhu Youjian's family, who was riding in a carriage, did not return to the Qi Palace after getting off the train, but rushed to the Forbidden City for a banquet.

Zhu Youxiao, who heard that Zhu Youjian had returned, specially held a family banquet, so Zhu Youjian and the others had to go to the Forbidden City to have dinner tonight before going home.

"It's so lively, and things are much cheaper..."

On the carriage, Zhou Sujie looked at the vendors setting up stalls outside the window. When she was crossing the road and waiting for the guardrail to be lowered, she saw some wooden signs with prices in front of the stalls, and she couldn't help being a little surprised.

Wine that used to cost fifty cents a catty has dropped to twenty cents a catty, and some mooncakes that cost more than twenty cents have also dropped to more than ten cents.

You know, on the train, Zhou Sujie saw drought scenes all the way back, but after returning to the capital, the feeling of drought seemed to disappear, and the whole capital became prosperous because of the train.

He sighed in the carriage, while Zhu Youjian sat beside him holding a copy of "Da Ming Pao", reading the newspaper quietly.

After a while, the railings on the road were lowered, and the carriage continued to drive towards the Forbidden City.

It seemed that the content of the newspaper had been read, Zhu Youjian put the newspaper aside, and followed Zhou Sujie to look out the window.

Compared with when they set off, the capital seemed a bit hotter, but even so, there were still many people on the street.

The sidewalks on both sides of the road were crowded with people, and when passing by a royal shop, Zhu Youjian asked people to stop on purpose.

He let Zhou Sujie sit in the car, and took Lu Yuangao to the inside of the imperial shop.

Not surprisingly, there were a lot of people shopping in the imperial shop, and many of them gathered around the bicycle cargo area, just because today was the day when bicycles were loaded.

In a prosperous city like Beijing, there will never be a shortage of rich people. Two-wheeled bicycles and recently launched four-wheeled bicycles are symbols of their status, while three-wheeled bicycles are basically bought by ordinary people.

Zhu Youjian took a few glances around, then walked to the grain area, where he took a look at the price of grain.

Perhaps it is because the trains are constantly transporting grain northward, so the price of rice in the capital is slightly cheaper than other places in Northern Zhili.

In the situation where the average price of rice in Beizhili was four renminbi a catty, the price of rice in the capital was only three renminbi.

Looking at the price of rice, even Lu Yuangao couldn't help sighing: "In this capital, not only the wages are higher than other places, but the prices are also lower than other places. This is really..."

For a while, he didn't know what to say, he was afraid that he would say something bad and make Zhu Youjian unhappy.

But Zhu Youjian was not so sensitive, he replaced Lu Yuangao and said:
"It is a fact that wages are high and prices are low, but the majority of people's lives are not on these, but mainly on rent."

Saying that, Zhu Youjian led Lu Yuangao out of the imperial shop, and looked at the "Dentist's notice board" at the door.

The notice board of the tooth shop includes various information such as car rental, house rental, house purchase, land purchase, etc., and there is a clerk in charge of introduction sitting next to it.

When encountering information they want to know, people can ask the clerk, and the clerk will come and introduce it.

But as long as the people don't open their mouths, the clerk won't come. After all, there are a lot of people watching, and some people just look at it. If everyone introduces it, one clerk is not enough.

Zhu Youjian looked at the notice board. Since this imperial store is the imperial store of Huanghuafang in the inner city, its notice board also has some rental and sale information of houses near the imperial store.

The location of Huanghuafang is not bad, so the rent and house price are relatively high.

[The third lane of Lumi Lane in Huanghuafang, three small courtyards, annual rent of four taels of silver]

[The second lane of Wuxue Lane in Huanghuafang, three quarters of four small courtyards, priced at 30 taels of silver]

After simply looking at the rental and sales information, Zhu Youjian can probably understand the housing prices in the inner city.

"How much is Lifu's salary in the capital? Has it increased?"

After a brief look, Zhu Youjian walked towards the carriage and asked Lu Yuangao at the same time.

Regarding this, Lu Yuangao shook his head: "It's still [-] Wen, it hasn't been raised before."

"Thirty Wen... is not bad." Zhu Youjian nodded slightly, calculating the price a little.

If an adult man spends only ten Wen a day and insists on going to work every day, he can buy a small courtyard with an area of ​​180 square meters and four rooms in the inner city in about four years.

If it is an outer city, it only takes about two years to buy such a yard.

Generally speaking, housing prices in the Ming Dynasty were generally affordable and cheap, and the most expensive housing prices in ancient dynasties were in the Song Dynasty.

If a courtyard of the same size is placed in the inner city of Bianliang in the Northern Song Dynasty, the price will be at least one thousand guan. The wages of Lifu who only have strength in Bianliang in the Northern Song Dynasty are only [-] yuan a day, which is the same as that of Lifu in Daming.

If a Lifu wanted to buy a small courtyard in the inner city of Bianliang in the Song Dynasty, he would have to live without eating or drinking for 100 years.

If you are a scholar who can read and write and copy books for others every day, it will take 40 years.

This kind of courtyard is still bought by ordinary people and small officials. If it is a house with a better location and a slightly larger area, the price will basically not be lower than [-] guan.

Even big writers like Ouyang Xiu and Su Che need to rent a house for more than ten years before they can save money to buy an ordinary house.

Compared with the housing prices in the Song Dynasty, the housing prices in the Ming Dynasty can be described as cheap.

Lifu is basically illiterate. If he is a literate person, he can basically do some errands. The daily wages are at least [-] Wen, and he can buy a house faster.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youjian looked at the people shopping around with smiling faces, he smiled too, and then got into the carriage.

Zhou Sujie waited for him for a while, so she was also curious about something interesting, so she couldn't help asking him after he got in the car.

Zhu Youjian talked about the price of rice, wheat, vegetables and fruits, then the price of houses, and finally the wages of the common people.

For Zhou Sujie, these things are very common. Apart from lamenting the cheap price of vegetables, fruits, rice and wheat, he does not think that the cheap house price is worth discussing.

Because not only in the capital city, it can be said that in any place in Daming, a house is not considered a luxury.

Zhou Sujie's ancestral home is Wu County in Suzhou Prefecture. Compared with the capital city, housing prices in Wu County are higher.

But even so, the people of Wu County have never worried about buying a house.

In her opinion, it is normal for housing prices to be cheap, so she naturally does not understand why Zhu Youjian laments that housing prices are cheap.

However, in order to promote the relationship, she still chatted with Zhu Youjian about this issue, and they didn't end the topic until the carriage stopped at the Donghua Gate of the Forbidden City.

The whole family got off the two carriages, and at the door they also saw Yuan Xipin, Zhu Cihuan, Zhu Cican, Zhu Yuxi, Zhu Yuyuan, whom they hadn't seen for a long time, and more than ten people.

"father!"

As soon as they saw Zhu Youjian, the young Zhu Cican and Zhu Cihuan and other six little ones ran over, hugged him, and grabbed Zhu Youjian's hand.

To be honest, too many children will make Zhu Youjian sometimes not recognize them all, but he still hugs every child as much as possible.

"Your Highness, this concubine is going back to the residence to rest first."

Zhou Sujie spoke suddenly, which made Zhu Youjian stunned for a moment, but he also reacted.

Although Zhou Sujie had been with him day and night for more than eight months, in the final analysis she was a concubine Ping, so logically she would definitely not be allowed to enter the palace.

It would be better for her to go back to rest, and if she got angry in the palace, she wouldn't be able to say anything.

"You go back first, bro, say goodbye to mother soon."

Zhu Youjian picked up Zhu Cihong, and Zhu Cihong, who knew that his mother-in-law could not enter the palace, seemed a little unhappy.

He listlessly raised his hand to say goodbye, and then watched Zhou Sujie close the door with his own eyes, and then the carriage drove away from Donghua Gate.

Zhu Youjian held Zhu Cihong in his arms, and took a large family to sit on the elephant chair.

As soon as Xiangren entered the Forbidden City, the flying bear guards who were in charge of guarding the Forbidden City bowed and sang: "Qi Wang is a thousand years old..."

Although such a voice did not spread far, it was also heard by some officials on duty in the Wenhua Palace.

Officials who heard the words "Qi Wang Qiansui" walked out of the Wenhua Palace one after another, and then they saw an elephant ride on the square in front of the Wenhua Palace that only princes could ride.

"Huh..." Seeing King Qi return to Beijing, many officials breathed a sigh of relief.

As the newly promoted chief assistant of the cabinet, Bi Ziyan, even if he can handle state affairs at the moment, even when he sees Zhu Youjian's return, he can't help but feel that the stone in his heart has fallen to the ground.

In the eyes of a veteran like him who has gone through three dynasties, Zhu Youjian can be said to be the magic needle of the sea. If he is there, the capital will not be chaotic.

They watched King Qi's elephant pass the Wenhua Palace, the smile on their faces hadn't retracted, and the next second they became stiff.

When they were watching Qi Wang Xiangren, a silver "lightning" appeared in their sight.

Many officials turned around and left immediately, even Bi Ziyan couldn't help but feel a little dissatisfied.

But it's useless for them to be dissatisfied, because this Forbidden City belongs to everyone.

"Uncle Qi! Uncle Qi!"

When Zhu Ciran who was riding a bicycle appeared beside Xiang Ren, Zhu Youjian who heard the voice also looked over.

When he saw Zhu Ciran's appearance, he couldn't help twitching the corners of his eyes.

What he couldn't hold back was not that Zhu Ciran became dark and thin, but what was on the rear frame of this guy Zhu Ciran.

Those memorabilia played by important ministers were randomly tied on the back shelf by Zhu Ciran like toilet paper.

Those who knew it could find that it was a memorial, but those who didn't know it thought that Zhu Ciran had just gone to the imperial store to buy some goods.

At this moment, Zhu Youjian only felt a headache...

Today is the last day of my business trip. I was almost busy the previous two days. I will wrap up this afternoon and go home.

Because it ends in the afternoon, it cannot be updated in the afternoon. The update of Chapter 2 is estimated to be around [-]:[-] pm.

After returning home tomorrow, the normal twelve o'clock and four o'clock updates should start.